Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stupid or silly person.
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- noun A
scatterbrained orstupid person .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stupid incompetent person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So bascially this nitwit is doing all she can to censor coverage of her so she is not portrayed in a bad light before she runs for President in 2012.
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This nitwit is right in line with Sarah Palin spouting off about dealth panels.
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How you managed not to deck that nitwit is beyond me.
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The worlds exploding, and that nitwit is worried about some jism, frozen in a testube, what a moron!
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Drinking badly brewed coffee, playing tic-tac-toe and hangman with my darling Boo, while some government nitwit is preparing us for adopting a special needs child.
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I also speed read and type faster than you can probably read … What you don’t realize being a nitwit, is that it takes me virtually no time to dismiss your idiocy.
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You on the otherhand are better described as a nitwit apologist.
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What hurt Kerry the most besides being a nitwit was the I voted for it before I voted against it.
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It's the the whiny, complaining, nitwits that make you lump the bad with the good on those days, even when the nitwit is your cash cow.
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I don't care if this guy does own 80% of Bombay Sapphire - a nitwit is a nitwit.
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